Maria is Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at Instituto Superior de Agronomia (ISA), University of Lisbon, since September of 2018. Other current positions include being a board member of the Portuguese Association of Historic Gardens (AJH - Associação dos Jardins Históricos). Maria graduated in Landscape Architecture from ISA in in 2007, being awarded the best graduated student in the final year. In 2016, Maria finalized a doctoral degree at Universitat de Barcelona with a full doctoral scholarship attributed by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), having obtained the Excellent “Cum Laude” classification. In 2019, her thesis was recognized as “Finalist” in the European Prize Manuel de Solà-Morales. She has been involved in several R&D projects and has thus far published in various international journals and conferences. Her current academic interests focus on landscape, urban ecology, urban floods, public space design and climate change adaptation.

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